>>7342121>There were virtually no collectors, no stores, no eBay, no high end toys not intended for kids, no real market for resale even SciFi or Comicons.This is generation z bullshit.
Comic conventions were a thing since the 70s and since at least the 80s, they had been reselling older toys at every convention i went to for premium prices.
Since you're too young to remember, vintage Star Wars figures used to go for even more back then than they do today, because there was no eBay to show how common as fuck those toys were.
Obviously, collectors were a thing since at least the 80s, because who else was driving the prices so high back then? Fucking transformers, He-Man, and GI Joe figures also cost too much fucking money back then. loose even and there were people selling just the weapons for a few fucking bucks EACH.
The only good thing about back then is that you COULD find older toys for cheap at garage sales, good will stores, and other secondhand sources. Once QVC caught up with the speculators market crazy and then Beanie Babies stupidity, everyone and their grandmother was reselling and overpricing shit even more in the 90s.
eBay was a god send in quelling prices, giving a true market value for our crap.
Also, you're dumb for your stupid view on movies needing to be seen in theaters to watch stuff. VHS wasn't as expensive as you think and public libraries were loaning out VHS and BETA tapes back then for free. Video rental stores were as ubiquitous as arcades back then, which is to say, every strip mall had them by 1984.
